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...bishop was something of a shock. In 1939, the Roman Catholics of Kansas City, Mo. hardly knew what to make of the intense, quiet-mannered man with reddish-brown hair and big ideas who came to preside over their...
...past two months, as they have each summer since the war, modern Romans and visitors have been swarming out to the Baths of Caracalla, but for a different reason. Three hundred and fifty thousand strong, they have gone to the majestic reddish brick ruins to see Rome's summer opera, one of the most dazzling sights, if not sounds, in the world...
Hardest hit were the networks, which have poured the most money into TV and reaped the least profit. This year CBS has made $500,000 less than it did in the first half of 1948. Du Mont's books have a reddish tinge and ABC, which can least afford it, is losing most of all. NBC does not release a balance sheet, but it is no exception. Of 76 TV stations in the U.S., only six claimed to be breaking even or making money. Manhattan's WPIX, owned by the New York Daily News, dropped...
Inside the cubbyhole they found a strange-looking man with a heavy reddish beard and hair hanging down to his shoulders. His clothes were ragged; torn gloves dangled from his filthy hands; he wore long underwear and no trousers. In a matter-of-fact voice he explained that he was Paul Makushak, 33. For ten years, or maybe it was eleven, he said, he had been living in the cramped cubbyhole. His mother, Anna, had fed him by lowering food through the chimney on a clothesline. When his mother became sick and had to be taken to Greenpoint Hospital...
...pitfall for pathologists: if the patient has been taking medicine containing phenacetin (an ingredient of Anacin, for instance), the solution would be cloudy instead of reddish purple...